Exodus To Shanghai


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Exodus To Shanghai


Exodus To Shanghai
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Author : S. Hochstadt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-06-19

Exodus To Shanghai written by S. Hochstadt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with History categories.


Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 years of interviews with over 100 former Shanghai refugees. It offers a moving collective portrait of courage, culture shock, persistence, and enduring hope in the face of unimaginable hardships.



Last Boat Out Of Shanghai


Last Boat Out Of Shanghai
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Author : Helen Zia
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2019-01-22

Last Boat Out Of Shanghai written by Helen Zia and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with History categories.


The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. “A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that happens to real people.”—New York Times bestselling author Lisa See NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, members of the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have revealed their stories to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves together the stories of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father’s dark wartime legacy, must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the U.S. in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America. The lives of these men and women are marvelously portrayed, revealing the dignity and triumph of personal survival. Herself the daughter of immigrants from China, Zia is uniquely equipped to explain how crises like the Shanghai transition affect children and their families, students and their futures, and, ultimately, the way we see ourselves and those around us. Last Boat Out of Shanghai brings a poignant personal angle to the experiences of refugees then and, by extension, today. “Zia’s portraits are compassionate and heartbreaking, and they are, ultimately, the universal story of many families who leave their homeland as refugees and find less-than-welcoming circumstances on the other side.”—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club



A Century Of Jewish Life In Shanghai


A Century Of Jewish Life In Shanghai
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Author : Steve Hochstadt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-22

A Century Of Jewish Life In Shanghai written by Steve Hochstadt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-22 with categories.


For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai life. Three waves of Jews, representing three religious and ethnic communities, landed in Shanghai, remained separate for decades, but faced the calamity of World War II and ultimate dissolution together.



The History Of The Shanghai Jews


The History Of The Shanghai Jews
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Author : Kevin Ostoyich
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-28

The History Of The Shanghai Jews written by Kevin Ostoyich and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-28 with History categories.


This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hitherto understudied topic of Shanghai Jewish refugees. Few among the general public know that during the Second World War, approximately 16,000 to 20,000 Jews fled the Nazis, found unexpected refuge in Shanghai, and established a vibrant community there. Though most of them left Shanghai soon after the conclusion of the war in 1945, years of sojourning among the Chinese and surviving under the Japanese occupation generated unique memories about the Second World War, lasting goodwill between the Chinese and Jews, and contested interpretations of this complex past. The volume makes two major contributions to the studies of Shanghai Jewish refugees. First, it reviews the present state of the historiography on this subject and critically assesses the ways in which the history is being researched and commemorated in China. Second, it compiles scholarship produced by renowned scholars, who aim to rescue the history from isolated perspectives and look into the interaction between Jews, Chinese, and Japanese.



Gendered Encounters Between Germany And Asia


Gendered Encounters Between Germany And Asia
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Author : Joanne Miyang Cho
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-14

Gendered Encounters Between Germany And Asia written by Joanne Miyang Cho and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with History categories.


This volume provides new insights into gendered interactions over the past two centuries between Germany and Asia, including India, China, Japan, and previously overlooked Asian countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Korea. This volume presents scholarship from academics working in the field of German-Asian Studies as it relates to gender across transnational encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gender has been a lens of analysis in isolated published chapters in previous edited volumes on German-Asian connections, but nowhere has there been a volume specifically dedicated to the analysis of gender in this field. Rejecting traditional notions of West and East as seeming polar opposites, their contributions to this volume attempts to reconstruct the ways in which German and Asian men and women have cooperated and negotiated the challenge of modernity in various fields.



Exodus


Exodus
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Author : John B. Dunlop
language : en
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Release Date : 2017

Exodus written by John B. Dunlop and has been published by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Religious refugees categories.


"Orthodox profiles, volume nine"--Cover.



The Great Exodus From China


The Great Exodus From China
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Author : Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-24

The Great Exodus From China written by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with History categories.


Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines the human exodus from China to Taiwan in 1949, focusing on trauma, memory, and identity.



The Chinese Exodus


The Chinese Exodus
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Author : Li Ma
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-07-02

The Chinese Exodus written by Li Ma and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-02 with Religion categories.


This book offers a sociological analysis as well as a theological discussion of China’s internal migration since the marketization reform in 1978. It documents the social and political processes that encompass the experiences of internal migrants from the countryside to the city during China’s integration into the global economy. Informed by sociological analysis and narratives of the urban poor, this volume reconstructs the political, economic, social and spiritual dimensions of this urban underclass in China who made up the economic backbone of the Asian superpower.



Voices From Shanghai


Voices From Shanghai
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-08-01

Voices From Shanghai written by and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with History categories.


When Hitler came to power and the German army began to sweep through Europe, almost 20,000 Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai. A remarkable collection of the letters, diary entries, poems, and short stories composed by these refugees in the years after they landed in China, Voices from Shanghai fills a gap in our historical understanding of what happened to so many Jews who were forced to board the first ship bound for anywhere. Once they arrived, the refugees learned to navigate the various languages, belief systems, and ethnic traditions they encountered in an already booming international city, and faced challenges within their own community based on disparities in socioeconomic status, levels of religious observance, urban or rural origin, and philosophical differences. Recovered from archives, private collections, and now-defunct newspapers, these fascinating accounts make their English-languge debut in this volume. A rich new take on Holocaust literature, Voices from Shanghai reveals how refugees attempted to pursue a life of creativity despite the hardships of exile.



Generation Exodus


Generation Exodus
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Author : Walter Laqueur
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2003-10-23

Generation Exodus written by Walter Laqueur and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-23 with History categories.


This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and "Dr Ruth" Westheimer. Walter Laqueur has drawn on interviews, published and unpublished memoirs and his own experiences as a member of this group of refugees, to paint a vivid and moving portrait of Generation Exodus.